In our science class, we have currently began working on a chemistry animation video. This video had to be over three minutes, creative and personalized, and had to feature both covalent and ionic bonding. A covalent bond is when two non-metals share electrons in order to become stable, and an ionic bond is when an atom gives one or more of its electrons to another atom with the opposite charge. We had to demonstrate the steps of these bonds in our animation. Me and my partner Alivia decided to split up the work so that she would mostly work one writing the script and editing the video, and I would focus more on creating the animation itself. We started this project off by brainstorming ideas of what the story of our video could be.

After brainstorming all of our ideas and coming up with a storyline and plot, I started to think about how I wanted to approach the animation and wether that approach be stop motion, live action, drawing, etc. I ended up going with drawing because I felt that it would show more creativity and would look better that if I were to do anything else. I used an app called explain everything, drew out all of my characters and setting, and moved my characters around using different settings on this app. It took much longer than I thought to complete, but I was very proud of my end product.

Once I had completed the animation, it was just a matter of editing the clips, putting them together, and adding audio. Once we completed that, our video was finally done and ready to be presented to our peers. Underneath a copy of our finished chemistry animation.

This project has been vital to my learning of chemical bonding, atoms, and elements alike. It has shown me my strengths when it come to artists ability, and has helped me grow in the area of better managing my time. All the things I have learned not only from this project, but from this whole unit have been displayed on a mind map of my creation, marking the growth in learning from the start of the term, where I also created a mind map of everything I knew about chemistry. There was an obvious increase in the amount of knowledge I possessed on the subject that can be seen by looking at the two mind maps side by side. Underneath is a copy of both the mind maps.